In the West, Syrian diplomats were arrested and deported for "looking" at anti-regime demonstrators. But the thuggery by Syrian exile opposition are never prosecuted or even reported in the press. I don't like the Syrian actress, Raghda: she is obnoxious and a vulgar Arab nationalist who praises Saddam and Bashshar. But the other day, she was delivering poetry in Cairo (she is a lousy poet, by the way), and a group of Syrian opposition goons beat her up before a live audience. Did you find anything about that in the Western press? Her father (in his 90s and afflicted with Alzheimer) has been kidnapped by Free Syrian Army criminals and tortured to denounce his daughter in videos).